Page 34 of My Ex's Roommates
I swallowed and nodded. I definitely heard how he felt, loud and clear. Looking at Dylan, I searched his face. “And you? How do you feel?”
His jaw muscles were working overtime as he scooted towards the edge of the couch and leaned even closer to me like there wasn’t a coffee table between us. “I feel like joining Silas in breaking shit. If we do this, there will be rules. No one outside of the three of us touches you.”
My spine stiffened. “Willyoube touching other people?”
He scowled. “Fuck no.”
Carter lightly gripped the back of my neck. “I feel the same way. I don’t want anyone else and I don’t want anyone outside of this room touching you.”
I looked at each of them and licked my lips. “Are we… God, this is painfully awkward. Are we dating? The exclusivity makes it feel like dating. But is that what you want? I mean, I don’t want to push-”
Carter closed the distance between us and kissed me, shutting me up. It was a soft kiss, something sweeter than anything he’d given me yet. “I consider it dating.”
Dylan nodded when I looked at him. “We’re dating.”
Silas grinned at me. “Yeah, princess, we’re dating. I wouldn’t expect you to accept anything less.”
31.
***Dylan***
“Can we take it slow at first? I’m nervous.” Harper licked her lips again, a nervous tick I’d never noticed before, and let out a quiet laugh. “I know we’ve all already slept together but I’m nervous and I don’t know why.”
I wanted to pull her into my lap and hold her. She looked younger without her makeup and with her hair piled on the top of her head, held there with a big claw thing. I liked that she hadn’t gotten all dressed up to talk to us. I couldn’t remember a single time seeing her without her makeup while she’d dated Jake. I was seeing more and more that it wasn’t who she really was. She’d just been putting on an act.
“We can take it slow. It’s not like we know what we’re doing, either.” I shrugged. “Should we figure out rules or something?”
Carter laughed. “I should’ve known that even in the bedroom, you’d be serious.”
Harper’s eyes met mine and a blush colored her cheeks even as a smile lifted her lips. She bit her lip and looked away quickly but that blush lingered. “What kind of rules?”
I cleared my throat. “Maybe not rules but more like parameters. We already know that we don’t want anyone touching you besides us. And we won’t be touching anyone besides you.”
“Sex.” Silas gave a deep belly laugh at the surprised look on Harper’s face. He shook his head and managed to pull himself together. “I mean we should talk about sex. There’s three of us and one of you. Are we about to divvy up days of the week? Make a calendar to hang on the fridge?”
“You’re not hanging anything from my fridge.” I frowned at him.
“Will we always take turns? Or…” Harper’s eyes went comically wide when all three of us nearly broke our necks turning to look at her so fast. “I’m not asking for anything! I just read a lot, you know? Sometimes in those books two or all of the boyfriends share the woman…at once. And now that I’m saying this out loud, I feel like a freak and would like to run into traffic. Oh, my god.”
She might’ve been embarrassed but the rest of us in the room had just had our minds blown. I shifted in my seat as the images in my head turned filthy. Carter crossed his leg over his knee and by the look of pain on his face I knew that he, too, was feeling the heat.
Silas sat back and stretched his legs out in front of him, the picture of ease if you didn’t count the pillow he’d placed over his lap. “Is that something you could imagine with us?”
It seemed like that was more than she could handle while sitting down. She paced back and forth beside the couches, herhands clenching and releasing at her sides. “I swear to god, if the three of you ever utter a word of this to anyone else, I’ll neuter you. Yes. I can imagine a lot of things but that doesn’t mean that you guys need to put yourselves in a weird position to make what I want happen. I’m being so fucking greedy already.”
I stood up and caught her wrist so I could pull her down on my lap. As soon as my arms went around her, she settled. “I can only speak for myself but you would have to ask for a lot more than that to make me uncomfortable.”
Silas nodded. “As long as no one else touches my cock but you, I’m great.”
Carter snorted. “Well there went my big plan.”
I felt the tension leave Harper’s body as she laughed at Carter. I couldn’t help taking advantage and pressing a kiss to the side of her neck. “Any hard limits that we should know about when it comes to the three of us being with you together?”
Her entire body shuddered and her breathing picked up. She shook her head and then hesitated. “I’m not into bathroom stuff. That’s not just for group activities. Jake asked if he could pee on me one time and I almost karate chopped his dick off. It’d be a lot easier with the three of you. There’s a lot more chopping room.”
Carter had just taken a sip of beer and it spewed out of his mouth, soaking the entire front of his body. “I’m going to kill that asshole.”
“I think… I think that’s it. I’m open to trying new things.” Harper took a second and then smiled at us. “This is not a conversation I ever thought I’d be having.”
